Sanjeev Kanoria

Sanjeev Kanoria is a London-based liver transplant surgeon, and healthcare entrepreneur. He is the owner and chairman of Advinia HealthCare as well as the vice-chairman of the supervisory board of Austrian Anadi Bank.

Kanoria is also the principal designer and co-founder of a 350-bed super-specialty hospital in Navi Mumbai. The facility combines science and spirituality, complementing technological advancements with its healing garden and meditation centre, under the auspices of the Yogoda Satsanga Society, a legacy of the renowned master Paramahansa Yogananda.

Medical career Kanoria trained at King's College London and Royal Free Hospital, London. With over 15 years of experience in liver transplant and hepato-pancreato-biliary surgery, he is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons and is listed on the General Medical Council Specialist Register. Kanoria holds a PhD from University College London for his research on reducing liver injury. He is the co-author of the chapter on liver disease in the 26th edition of the esteemed Bailey and Love surgery textbook. After earning an MBA from London Business School and North Western University in 1997, Kanoria worked as a consultant in Healthcare, Strategy & Finance at McKinsey & Co until 1999.

In January 2019, he co-authored a chapter, Dealing with Different Cultures: Overcoming Challenges of Service Design in a Multicultural World: Theory, Concepts, Practice, for the book "Service Design and Service Thinking in Healthcare and Hospital Management".

Austrian Anadi Bank In 2013, Kanoria acquired the domestic banking unit of Austrian bank Hypo Alpe Adria, founded in 1896. The bank, renamed Austrian Anadi Bank, has corporate, retail and public finance divisions and assets totaling €2.9 billion.

Advinia Health Care In 1999, having left McKinsey, Kanoria co-founded Advinia Health Care with his wife, Sangita Kanoria, using equity from his London home to fund his PhD in liver transplant. In 2017, Advinia Healthcare became the first care provider in the UK to research the use of robots in care homes, participating in the EU-Japan project CARESSES led by University of Genova. The 2 million euros EU-funded project, in partnership with University of Genova, Middlesex University, University of Bedfordshire, Örebro University, SoftBank, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Nagoya University and Chubu University, ran from January 2017 to January 2020. The Pepper robot, owned by Softbank, was embedded with an Artificial Intelligence developed in the project, designed to interact with older people in a culturally competent way to address their needs.

Dr. Kanoria received the Healthcare Economist of the Year award in 2014 at the Pharma Leaders Power Brand Awards.